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<blockquote data-quote="504RP" data-source="post: 1700320" data-attributes="member: 40335"><p>Sounds like they have the perfect environment to live in. I wonder what they feed on.</p><p></p><p>Here we have rattle snakes that are found mostly in the mountains. There a lot of rodents, mice, chip monks, bugs that I would guess that they survie off of.</p><p></p><p>Their not all that abundant and you would have a hard time finding one if you were looking for one.</p><p></p><p>Most that I have seen were around 3 foot. Copper heads and black snakes are more abundant and are more of what you find here.</p><p></p><p>I just realized I haven't seen any type of snake in the past couple of years now and that is kind of strange. Usually see a few on roads that have been ran over.</p><p></p><p>5 or 6 years ago about 20 or so of us were riding mules up in the mountains. Trail was narrow and on edge of steep bluffs, ridges.</p><p></p><p>So in most areas we had to ride in a single file formation. As we were coming up this trail out of a canyon the trail widened out on a small flat bench.</p><p></p><p>4 maybe 5 riders had a huge rattle snake bayed. Tring to pen it down, grabbing its tail and stretching it out so that it couldn't coil to strike.</p><p></p><p>So the rest of us were having to kind of squeeze by on the trail to get around them and not get bit in the process. I didn't get a real good look at the rattler except when they had it by it's tail dragging it to strecrh it out as i was passing by.</p><p></p><p>But what I could see was huge. Maybe 5 inches if not bigger in girth. The guys messing with it said it was a good 4 if not 5 foot in length, head as big as a baseball, fangs about an inch long.</p><p></p><p>I thought it was a python or some sort of exotic type of snake someone might have bought from a pet store and didn't want anymore and had turned it loose in the mountains. But they was certain it was a diamond back rattler.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="504RP, post: 1700320, member: 40335"] Sounds like they have the perfect environment to live in. I wonder what they feed on. Here we have rattle snakes that are found mostly in the mountains. There a lot of rodents, mice, chip monks, bugs that I would guess that they survie off of. Their not all that abundant and you would have a hard time finding one if you were looking for one. Most that I have seen were around 3 foot. Copper heads and black snakes are more abundant and are more of what you find here. I just realized I haven't seen any type of snake in the past couple of years now and that is kind of strange. Usually see a few on roads that have been ran over. 5 or 6 years ago about 20 or so of us were riding mules up in the mountains. Trail was narrow and on edge of steep bluffs, ridges. So in most areas we had to ride in a single file formation. As we were coming up this trail out of a canyon the trail widened out on a small flat bench. 4 maybe 5 riders had a huge rattle snake bayed. Tring to pen it down, grabbing its tail and stretching it out so that it couldn't coil to strike. So the rest of us were having to kind of squeeze by on the trail to get around them and not get bit in the process. I didn't get a real good look at the rattler except when they had it by it's tail dragging it to strecrh it out as i was passing by. But what I could see was huge. Maybe 5 inches if not bigger in girth. The guys messing with it said it was a good 4 if not 5 foot in length, head as big as a baseball, fangs about an inch long. I thought it was a python or some sort of exotic type of snake someone might have bought from a pet store and didn't want anymore and had turned it loose in the mountains. But they was certain it was a diamond back rattler. [/QUOTE]
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